Steven Menendez exclusively shares his “Out with the Old, in with the Queer" New Year's Eve photo series with The Queer Review shot in December, 2025 in New York City. "Out with the old, in with the queer" featuring Randall Kohn. Photo credit: Steven Menendez. Steven Love Menendez: As we enter into the New Year,... Continue Reading →
As 2025 draws to a close, we invite some friends of The Queer Review, including prominent creators, performers, and activists to share the LGBTQ+ culture that has sustained, stimulated, moved, inspired, or brought them solace this year. We hope that you enjoy this eclectic selection and discover something new to revel in. We would love... Continue Reading →
First performed at Versailles in 1664—and subsequently banned in France by the Church and the police for several years—centuries on, Molière’s Tartuffe still delights and feels bitingly relevant with its observations about human nature in Lucas Hnath's sharp and spicy rhyming verse adaptation directed by Sarah Benson, receiving its world premiere Off-Broadway at New York... Continue Reading →
"I'm a queer icon, who knew?!" Jokes screenwriter Daniel Waters as he discusses the strong queer following for Batman Returns and Heathers. Waters is also known for the 2032-set sci-fi Demolition Man, which predicted a President Schwarzenegger, and the under-appreciated screwball action-comedy Hudson Hawk starring Sandra Bernhard as the villainous Minerva Mayflower opposite Bruce Willis'... Continue Reading →
Steven Menendez shares a new "Deco Doll" portfolio with The Queer Review shot in November, 2025 in New York City. "Deco Doll" featuring Rosalina Michele. Photo credit: Steven Menendez. Steven Menendez: In this series of portraits I wanted to pay homage to the revolutionary feminist style icons of the 1920s like essayist and novelist Anaïs... Continue Reading →
On World AIDS Day 2025, Monday, December 1st, The Center celebrated resilience, unity, and remembrance with its 5th annual The World of Red Ball: Rulers of the Red World in New York. Ballroom icons and stars of CATS: The Jellicle Ball, Junior Labeija and “Tempress” Chasity Moore, were each honored with the Ballroom & Beyond... Continue Reading →
Certified drag icons Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme are back on tour in the US and Canada with their eighth annual The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show bringing even more bite, irrelevance, and fiercely defiant tidings of comfort and joy than ever. Not to forget plenty of dick jokes. It's that kind of holiday show. In... Continue Reading →
The Powerhouse: International festival launching this fall at Powerhouse Arts (322 3rd Ave, Brooklyn), features large-scale performance works from around the world and includes a series of concerts by some of today’s most boundary-pushing musicians. Produced in a venue purpose-built for art and connection, the festival transforms the awe-inspiring Powerhouse Arts facility, a former power plant, into... Continue Reading →
Actor and writer Daniel K. Isaac is known for giving smart, nuanced, and playful performances and has a quietly commanding presence on stage and screen that draws the viewer in. Let's face it, those dreamboat good looks and that killer smile don't hurt either. Alongside creating his own work, such as his playwriting debut Once... Continue Reading →
Award-winning cabaret star and actor Kim David Smith returns to New York's Club Cumming on Sunday, December 14th for his fabulously queer annual holiday celebration, A Wery Weimar Christmas, courting festive cheer amid the glitter, doom, and decadence of 1920s Berlin. Featuring the original holiday tunes "A Wery Merry Weimar Christmas," and "Don't Let Krampus... Continue Reading →
